Haitian has no conjugation per se, instead it uses tense markers. Regardless of who is speaking or being addressed, the verb itself never changes. While there is no specific structural requirements to the formation of a verb, in its present tense most verbs appear as phonetic spellings of frence verbs in their infinitive form. Because the verb itself does not change, and the tense markers themselves are also invariant, many students feel relieve that "there is no conjugation" to study.

Like english, simple present tense suffices for both habitual/continuous and singular occurances of an action. Whenever unambiguous, the present tense also acts as the simple past. ("m pale" is both "I speak", and also "I spoke"). -- The perfect tense is used differentially, to avoid ambiguity when the present tense is equally likely.